Remember its the world's third largest country by population, and largest fully developed country by quite a margin (Japan and being about a third the population and Germany a little over a 4th). A lot of China's industry is state owned, or i'd expect to see far more than two companies on this list. By 2067 though, i'd expect perhaps more China as the People's Republic develops and shifts towards a more market based economy and certainly more India.
It's funny how completely beaten down the rest of the world's self-esteem has been the last 70 years that this is the best they can come up with for a brag. "The entire rest of the world accounts for 20% of the value of this list! Suck it USA!!"
nope, the center of the world is in the core. on a map, it's in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, right off the coast of Africa. it's where the equator and prime meridian meet. (equatorial guinea is very close to this.)
Not really. It means you can find a ready buyer at the listed price on any day the market is open. If you think the market is wrong, you can bet against it whenever you want.
That's not entirely fair, though obviously the glory days are long gone. Problem is that many of the things that are invented by Brits don't get UK investment. The Dyson vacuum cleaner springs to mind. Successful British invention but James Dyson could only get initial investment from Japan. Then when production started in the UK it was using an American company I believe. Movies too (though not "inventions" exactly). Plenty of British properties, like Harry Potter, made into hugely successful films with largely British crew and cast, but the finance generally comes from the US so the profits go there.
Wait, in Switzerland, a British guy comes up with a web protocol to use the internet developed by the US Dept of Defense decades before. And this is a British invention? Because he was born there? Even if we spot you one, it's a pretty damn short list. Oh, the adapted vacuum cleaner. Clever, that. Still you guys call it Hoovering...
the television was made possible by several different inventions pioneered by several different inventors, most prominently 2 Americans, 1 Scotsman, and 1 Japanese guy.
The Internet was without question or legitimate controversy invented in the United States by Americans. Many decades later, after spreading to the entire world and after many hundreds of other innovations, some people in Switzerland invented hypertext links and a couple of other things that helped contribute to the commercialization of the thing that already existed and was in wide use. And there was a British guy working on the project. If Berners-Lee invented the Internet then Ray Kroc invented hamburgers. And if the nationality of one guy on staff confers credit for an invention to the country that guy is from, then... I guess Germany invented manned spaceflight? Actually, I have heard someone on this site make that claim before.
A useful clue when trying to figure out where something was invented: look at which territories don't require special identification or adaptation when adopting the technology or system.
For example, postage stamps from the UK are the only postage stamps in the world that don't list what country they are from on the stamp. Want to take a guess as to which country invented postage stamps?
Commercial websites in the UK always used to end in .co.uk. Just like in Russia it's .co.ru. In France it's .co.fr. In the US? Is and always has been just .com
Same way if you look at international calling codes. Code for the UK? +44. For Thailand? +66. Japan? +81. Tuvalu? +688. For the US and Canada? +1.
Hang on, are you saying an American invented the telephone..?
The jet engine is pretty significant as an invention, and the way the British establishment handled it is an object lesson in the general uselessness of British industry for much of the 20th century. There's also tarmac, the electronic programmable computer (fairer I suppose just to say that the Colossus was the first of many rather than that it's an exclusively British invention), the atomic clock, carbon fibre, etc.
I'd think inclusion on this list has far more to do with business than with invention. It's not, after all, as if many of these companies arose because of some particular invention or even discovery.
Wow. Home Depot is way bigger than I thought. Also, though it makes sense now, when I was taking the quiz I could not for the life of me figure out what type of business the "Consumer" sector was.
Typed Exxon and typed Mobil. Never tried to put them together. Also, would have though retail a better description for Amazon. Though, with Echo/Alexa and the streaming services, maybe tech does suit.
Generally speaking, Amazon is tech first and retail is what they use to make money at the moment. They are one of the top software companies in the world and pay top dollar for engineers to create tech like assistant & AWS. Calling Amazon retail is kind of like calling Google an ad company.
Amazon is considered tech because of AWS. Web Services is about 10% of Amazons revenues, but more than half of its operating profit. Many thousands (millions maybe) of websites are run off Amazon's servers, including probably this one.
Amazon is all things to all people. But their core strength is tech. Not only does technology enable everything they do, but they make more than 50% of their profit from cloud computing.
Unilever is at about $147Bn and Coca-cola is $244Bn as of today. So yeah, Coke should probably be added, although on the date given, it was around 231-234Bn so probably didn't quite make it based on the quizmaster's data source.
Mind boggling to me that NVIDIA, which only does graphics hardware, is near the top of the list, and Intel, which makes CPUs, graphics, FPGAs, SSDs, and all sorts of consumer products, doesn't even make the list. In fact, NVIDIA is worth more than 3x Intel's market cap on the strength of a single market segment.
I think by "Louis Vuitton" it is meant the entire LVMH conglomerate, including (among others) Moët champagne, Hennessy cognac, Tiffany's, and a lot more brands in wines & spirits, fashion, jewelry, cosmetics, and retailing.
Any chance we could get "moutai" accepted for Kweichow Moutai? Although it's technically the type of baijiu and not the brand name, it's synonymous with the brand in China and is the preferred abbreviated name for the branded beverage.
Bit stingy on the time here QM which is unusual for you....another minute maybe? It's not the sort of quiz you can easily guess a.... But as its just me saying this then maybe not!
The Internet was without question or legitimate controversy invented in the United States by Americans. Many decades later, after spreading to the entire world and after many hundreds of other innovations, some people in Switzerland invented hypertext links and a couple of other things that helped contribute to the commercialization of the thing that already existed and was in wide use. And there was a British guy working on the project. If Berners-Lee invented the Internet then Ray Kroc invented hamburgers. And if the nationality of one guy on staff confers credit for an invention to the country that guy is from, then... I guess Germany invented manned spaceflight? Actually, I have heard someone on this site make that claim before.
For example, postage stamps from the UK are the only postage stamps in the world that don't list what country they are from on the stamp. Want to take a guess as to which country invented postage stamps?
Commercial websites in the UK always used to end in .co.uk. Just like in Russia it's .co.ru. In France it's .co.fr. In the US? Is and always has been just .com
Same way if you look at international calling codes. Code for the UK? +44. For Thailand? +66. Japan? +81. Tuvalu? +688. For the US and Canada? +1.
The jet engine is pretty significant as an invention, and the way the British establishment handled it is an object lesson in the general uselessness of British industry for much of the 20th century. There's also tarmac, the electronic programmable computer (fairer I suppose just to say that the Colossus was the first of many rather than that it's an exclusively British invention), the atomic clock, carbon fibre, etc.
I'd think inclusion on this list has far more to do with business than with invention. It's not, after all, as if many of these companies arose because of some particular invention or even discovery.
Unilever ranks #94 by the way,
- Shortage of GPUs
- GPUs are used for crypto mining
- GPUs are massively used in AI, this is still a huge growth market.
- investors are betting on the takeover of ARM by NVIDIA to succeed
Eli Lilly has an even more effective weight loss drug coming soon which could explain their presence on the list as well.